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Terms
  • entrepreneurs- were interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit. Many British people were wealthy and were known as this.
  • capital- Britian had a ready supply of money or capital, to invest in the new industrial machines and the factories needed to house them
  • cottage industry- it was a method of producation that in which tasks are done by the individuals in their own rural homes
  • puddling- is the process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron
  • industrial capitalism- is an economic system based on the industrial productionor of the manufacturing. Industrial capitalism produced a new middle-class group th industrial middle class.
  • socialism- is a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production
  • romanticism- an intellectual movenment that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing
  • secularization- it was the indifference to or rejection of the religion or of the religious consideration. The nineteeth century was the age of increasing secularization.
  • realism- is the mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle class life as it actually was
  • natural section- was the principle set forth by Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others; in popular terms, "survival of the fittest
People
  • Thomas Edison- he ivented the light bulb and because of his creation Joseph Swan in Great Britain opened homes and cities to electric lights.
  • James Watt- the cotton industry became even more productive when the steam engine wd was inmproved by James, he made changes that enabled the engine to drive machinery.
  • Alexander Graham Bell- he invented the telephone in 1876.

  • Charles Darwin- published On the Orgin of Species of Natural Selection. The basic idea of the book was that each kind of animal and plant had evolved over a long period of time from earlier to simpler forms of life.
  • Charles Dickens- he became very successful with his novels as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, he described the urban poor and the brutal life they led with vivid realism.
  • Guglielmo Marconi- he sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.
  • Albert Einstein- a German born scientist published his theory of relativity, which stated that space and time are not absolute but are relative to the observer.
  • Sigmund Freud- proposed a series of theories that raised questions about nature of the human mind. He thought human behavior was strongly determined by past experiences and internal forces of which people were unaware.
  • Marie Curie- discovered that an element called radium gave off energy, or radiation, that apparently came from within the atom itself.
  • Claude Monet- who painted pictures in which he sought to capture the interplay of light, water, and sky.
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Albert Einstein


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Marie Curie
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Claude Monet
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Map of Europe
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Alexander Graham Bell


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Sigmund Freud


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Cotton Gin

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James Watt
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Charles Dickens



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